An old photograph of then-U.S. President Richard Nixon purportedly shows him speaking by telephone to the astronauts of Apollo 11 soon after they landed on the moon in 1969 … while a photograph ...

Many older Americans recall exactly where they were at 10:56 p.m. EST on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. Minutes later, President Nixon, in office six months to the day ...

Apollo 11 was a rousing success and astronauts Neil ... But what would happen if they couldn't come back? President Richard Nixon, who delivered a message to Armstrong, Aldrin and Michael Collins ...

"Nixon talking to Apollo 11 on a landline phone with a picture taken from the moon in the background," reads text on the image. "Take your time." Some commenters saw the post as evidence the moon ...

On July 24, 1969, Dick Powers was a 23-year-old Navy lieutenant on the Apollo 11 Recovery ship USS Hornet. Picked by the carrier’s captain to serve as the aide to President Nixon, Powers ...

It's important to remember that the Apollo 11 mission was a dangerous one and the success of it was not preordained. Nixon's speech is as follows and you can almost hear Nixon's voice in your head ...

APOLLO 11: SECRET NIXON SPEECH REVEALS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF ARMSTRONG AND ALDRIN COULDN'T COME BACK “Media misinformation is a longstanding phenomenon, but, exacerbated by deepfake technologies ...

Safire said he delivered the speech to then Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman two days before Apollo 11's moon landing. If the men would have died on the moon, Nixon's speech would have started with ...

Nixon’s contingency speech if something with the Apollo 11 mission had gone wrong.Nixon Presidential Library and M Safire, in a 1999 interview with “Meet the Press,” said Aldrin and ...

Related: Apollo 11 at 50: A Complete Guide to the Historic ... all available through the Richard Nixon Foundation's website. The command module spacecraft of Apollo 13 experienced an explosion ...

(Courtesy Francesca Panetta) Imagine a past in which the crew of Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969 — but then became stranded there, leading then-President Nixon to give a speech ...

An old photograph of U.S. President Richard Nixon purportedly shows him speaking by telephone to the astronauts of Apollo 11 soon after they landed on the moon in 1969 — while a photograph taken ...